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First of all, Ill have to report a bug in James’ blog post. We only got $23 for the worst bug report award.=)

Then I would like to thank for the fun competition James set up, it was really a learning experience and in retrospect I would maybe have put even more effort in the learning parts throughout the exercise. This, and my ability to concentrate may also have been impaired because of the time of day (after 6 pm after long conference day) and that I was still jet-lagged. But enough whining now, here is the story and my learnings that hopefully will help me make better decisions in the future. Read more…

I have touched this before, and now I think its time to bring it up again. Any story needs a context to fulfill the purpose of people understanding it. This is true for any story, may it be in testing or blogging or anything else for that matter. This is a tough one, since you never seem to be able to explain enough of the context in a blog post.

Recap

In my last post , I actually tried to explain some of the context that I saw as an important part of the posting. In that case, no reader can be sure that the explained context would include more of the unsaid context, and is required to ask for clarifications of this context. That is what happened when James commented on it: